Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flag Decision. The new Cabinet has decided to retain temporarily the mooted "flag order" (TiME, May 17 et seq.), as a result of which the Luther Cabinet fell. A new or compromise flag will be devised and submitted to the Reichstag by the Cabinet; but until that is approved or rejected all German consulates (except at inland European towns) will continue to fly the merchant marine flag (greatly resembling the old imperial flag) as well as the ordinary banner of the Reich...
...Timers' Hour" has been set at 2 o'clock tomorrow, when a parade with a brass band will take place. Next will come the raising of the newly-adopted flag by 4-A, officials, to be followed by a race on old-fashioned bicycles, an exhibition walking race, and a half-mile...
This actually resulted from a totally different cause, grew out of a squabble originally little noticed by the press - the so-called "German flag controversy" (TIME...
...imperial flag (black, white and red) was, as everyone knows, displaced by the Republican flag (black, red and gold) through the action of the National Assembly at Weimar in 1919. Recently the Luther Cabinet ordered that the merchant marine flag (black, white and red with a tiny black, red and gold field in the staff corner) should also be flown by German diplomatic and consular offices. This flag was denounced as "nine-tenths Imperial and only one-tenth Republican" by the Left parties; and last week Chancellor Luther was savagely interpellated about it in the Reichstag...
Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag order until August. Then, witless, he offered the ridiculous explanation that several months' time would be needed to communicate the order to German consulates in different parts of the world...